Our flagship publication is the biennial Global State of Harm Reduction report. First published in 2008, it involves a coordinated effort across practitioners, academics, advocates and activists to map global data and responses to HIV and hepatitis C epidemics related to unsafe injecting and non-injecting drug use. It is the only report to provide an independent analysis of the state of harm reduction in the world. The information collated within the report is stored and regularly updated on an interactive e-tool for researchers and advocates.

The Global State of Harm Reduction report is supplemented by regular
thematic reports and advisories on key issues and emerging challenges.
Please search our Resource Library for more information or join our e-list for regular updates.

Global State of Harm Reduction’ e-tool is an interactive resource containing up-to-date information on harm reduction policy and programming around the world. Users can select countries or regions and create tables for an at-a-glance guide to the current state of harm reduction worldwide.

HRI is a leading non-governmental organisation working to reduce the negative health, social and human rights impacts of drug use and drug policy by promoting evidence-based public health policies and practices, and human rights based approaches to drugs. Read more about HRI’s history.

Harm reduction refers to policies, programmes and practices that aim to
reduce the harms associated with the use of psychoactive drugs in people
unable or unwilling to stop. The defining features are the focus on the
prevention of harm, rather than on the prevention of drug use itself,
and the focus on people who continue to use drugs.

HRI benefits from the generous support of the Open Society Foundations, the European Commission, the Elton John AIDS Foundation, the MAC AIDS Fund, UNAIDS, the World Health Organization, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the World Bank, The Robert Carr Networks Fund and the Swiss Government.

Harm Reduction Journal, www.harmreductionjournal.com, is an open access, peer-reviewed,
online journal whose focus is on the prevalent patterns of psychoactive
drug use, the public policies meant to control them, and the search for
effective methods of reducing the adverse medical, public health, and
social consequences associated with both drugs and drug policies.

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Satellite Meetings

As in previous years, groups and organisations will wish to organise meetings and satellite events to take place around Harm Reduction 2011. Harm Reduction International and the Conference Consortium welcome the opportunity to support and promote these events via the website and other media and acknowledge them in the conference reader.

Anyone wishing to organise a satellite should firstly contact Maria Souaid, at EVENTA (HR:2011's locally based managing agent). You will need to provide Maria with details of what facilities and services you require for your meeting and agree a contract for such facilities and any catering services. All arrangements and transactions, including financial transactions, are between EVENTA and the organiser of the satellite, neither Harm Reduction International nor the Conference Consortium can accept any liability assigned from either party for any expenditure involved.

Once you have details of the venue and time for your meeting you should contact Annie Kuch to discuss the promotion opportunities. Ordinarily to be recognised as an official satellite to the conference, publicised on the website and included in the conference reader, at least 50% (or 25 individuals, whichever is the larger number) of those anticipated to attend any satellite meeting must also be registered as delegates to the conference itself.

Satellites, meetings and other events:

First we would like to welcome you to Beirut and hope you enjoy your stay in our country. We also would like to add on the networks meetings: the MENAHRA meeting that will take place in CEDARS… Read more

11:00 am to 1:00 pm, Noura Room, Metropolitan Palace Hotel Both the
Harm Reduction International and the International Drug Policy
Consortium are developing work and contacts in sub-Saharan Africa, and want to
encourage a discussion amongst IHRC delegates from that region on how best to continue to develop civil society collaboration
to… Read more

The
Network of Networks is an informal coalition, originally formed at Harm Reduction International
conference in Brazil in 1998. It provides a forum for harm reduction networks
to share information, concerns and experiences, and to work together where required
to campaign and advocate for harm reduction. The
focus on the Network of Networks… Read more